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This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne.
And I'm Steve Inskeep. Good morning.
Hours before a deadline to extend the federal debt limit, the stock market seems kind of comfortable. The Dow Jones Industrials are actually up this morning, amid some hope that Congress may agree on a measure to avoid default and also reopen the federal government.
Let's find out what we can. NPR congressional correspondent Tamara Keith has been covering this story all the way through. She's at the Capitol. Tamara, good morning.
TAMARA KEITH, BYLINE: Hi. Yeah. Glad to be with you.
INSKEEP: So, OK, assume this deal comes together. What's it look like?
KEITH: It looks like a deal that's sort of been discussed for several days now. It would reopen the government through January 15th. It would raise the debt limit through February 7th. But then the Treasury Department would have extraordinary measures that it could use. So, likely, we wouldn't have another debt ceiling fight until late spring, early summer. And then, also, it would require income verification for people getting subsidies on the health care insurance exchanges - that's the Affordable Care Act - and would begin the process of budget negotiations, the theory being that if maybe they could get together and settle on some top-line numbers and settle on some other things, maybe, just maybe we could stop having these fights.
INSKEEP: You mean do regular budget negotiations, like they've had for generations in Congress, go back to that system.
KEITH: Yeah. I wouldn't go so far as to say generations. I think our current budget system only goes back to the '70s, and it doesn't normally work very well. But, hey, let's try it again.
INSKEEP: OK. That's fine. All right, let's add a note of caution, here: We're talking here about a deal that people may be anticipating, but that has not appeared in written form anywhere, would still have to get through the Senate and the House, both. Right?
KEITH: That's correct. Right now, Senate Republicans are meeting and being briefed on the plan as it stands. And then, yes, it would have to pass the Senate. It seems likely to pass the Senate, given that it's been negotiated with the leaders - the Republican and Democratic leaders - and that there are many both Democratic and Republican senators who have just been saying please, make this end. Make this crisis go away.
INSKEEP: And can it end today, Tamara? Because, of course, the Senate can be slowed down by any one member who wants to talk for a long time.
KEITH: And that is the big question: What do a couple of members who began this fight, what does Senator Ted Cruz from Texas and Senator Mike Lee from Utah, what are they going to do? Are they going to stand in the way? We do not know the answer to that question. Reporters have certainly been asking them whenever they can. We don't know. So that is a big question.
But if the - things take a very long time in the Senate, except when they don't. And if the Senate is motivated, they can move very quickly, as can the House. This could all be resolved today, or we could still be talking on Saturday.
INSKEEP: Tamara, I want to ask you a question about the mood. I was on the phone with a House Republican. He's one of the conservatives who was driving to defund Obamacare. He still wants to do that. But he seemed to express clearly that he thinks this fight is over, that there will be a Senate plan. It will get through the Senate, it will go to the House, and that Speaker John Boehner is going to let it come to the floor. It will get a lot of Democratic votes, some Republican votes, and pass. Even though he's against it, he seemed resigned to the fact that this fight is over. Are you encountering a lot of people there who think that we're near the end of this?
KEITH: I think that, for days, people have been feeling like we were near the end of this. And yesterday's high drama with John Boehner, Speaker John Boehner coming up with a plan that he hoped would please the conservatives, and then having to go back to the drawing board a couple of times before finally scrapping it, I think that was sort of the last hurrah, here, of this fight. And then once that imploded, there was this sense like, OK, this is over and this is going to happen very quickly.
INSKEEP: And so it could fall apart again, we should warn people, because it's fallen apart before. But the feeling this morning is that something can happen.
KEITH: That is the feeling. You know, you don't know if you're in the part of the movie where the ax-murderer is really dead, or if he's going to show up with a chainsaw. But one hopes that he's really dead.
INSKEEP: Tamara, I'm going to just go away from you and make sure that you can look over your shoulder for that ax-murderer, OK?
KEITH: Thank you.
INSKEEP: Look after yourself over there at the Capitol. That's NPR congressional correspondent Tamara Keith. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Annie Goodhouse doesn't need to be warned about bad boys; good sense and an abusive ex have given her plenty of reasons to play it safe. But when she steps into her new role as outreach librarian for Cousins Correctional Facility, no amount of good sense can keep her mind—or eyes—off inmate Eric Collier.
Eric doesn't claim to be innocent of the crime that landed him in prison. In fact, he'd do it again if that's what it took to keep his family safe. Loyalty and force are what he knows. But meeting Annie makes him want to know more.
When Eric begins courting Annie through letters, they embark on a reckless, secret romance—a forbidden fantasy that neither imagines could ever be real…until early parole for Eric changes everything, and forces them both to face a past they can't forget, and a desire they can't deny.
10. When the book starts, our hero Eric Collier (prisoner #802267) has been in prison for five years. If this isn't reason enough to read this book, you have come to the wrong post.
I knew who it was without even raising my eyes. Broad shoulders and slim hips, long legs. Overgrown dark hair. Eyes hot enough to singe.
Why was I even so freaked out? 802267 looked no more or less threatening than any of the other men, so it had to be intuition…Except he put me on alert one level deeper than mere fear. Made me feel warm and unnerved and restless in a way I didn't trust at all. A way I wasn't used to. A hunger I hadn't been dogged by in years.
9. Our heroine, Annie Goodhouse is a librarian. People! A prison inmate/librarian romance book! She teaches classes once a week at the prison. Her last boyfriend years ago was abusive, so when she falls into lust with a prisoner, she can't believe she is falling for another bad boy. (but she can't help herself)
8. During Annie's lunch breaks she starts watching Eric work out in the prison exercise yard.
He stripped his shirt, tossing it in a ball on the dry, brown grass.
And he was beautiful.
His body shocked the very breath out of me. Tan and strong and fucking cut.
Of course he is. What else is there to do? His powerful shoulders tapered to a trim waist, every inch of him looking carved and honed and dangerous, a tall, strong, frame wrapped elegantly in muscle and skin. I felt things I thought I'd only ever dreamt, it had been so long. Hunger, between my legs,. Urgency heating every ounce of my coursing blood. He dropped to bang out a couple dozen push-ups, and Lord help me, I imagined my body beneath his pumping one.
7. I'm not going to tell you what Eric did to get himself into prison (you find out in the book, but I think it's better for the suspense if you don't know the reason). Eric has a hard time reading. I believe he dropped out of school in the tenth grade. He has a form of dyslexia called dysgraphia, where it's hard for him to remember how to write letters. So he dictates a letter to Annie. She thinks he is writing home to a sweetheart (but pssssst – the letter is actually for her *falls down dead*)
"Go on," I said.
"I missed you since your last visit." He watched my hand as he spoke, as his words took shape, drawn by my fingers with an ease he'd likely never know, himself. The act felt strangely, intensely intimate.
[…] "I miss you every minute we're apart. And I watch the clock every morning when I think I might be seeing you again." He paused, waiting until my hand did the same. "I miss how you smell. Like spring and grass. There's not much grass here. I miss your face . . . And the way you smile sometimes. I want to make you smile like that."
I ignored my jealousy, that hot snake twisting in my belly as I imagined such things. "Okay."
"I miss your voice. The way you talk."
I like the way you talk. Where you from?
The snake slowed. Changed direction, coiling low. "I wish I could see you, away from here." He put his forearms on the desk, leaning closer, speaking even more quietly. "I wish we could be together . . . in ways I haven't been with a woman in five years. Sometimes, when I see you . . . Sometimes I can't even listen to what you're saying. All I can do is watch your mouth
6. Annie gives Eric an old word processor to practice typing. He practices by writing her dirty love letters. There are many in this book, and I loved every one of them.
I've never been with a southern girl but it's like every word you say comes out rolled in sugar. I think about kissing you like I said. Real deep and slow with our eyes closed. Maybe feel your hands on my chest or my back. As I hold your face or your hair. As I got to see if you taste like sugar to match how you sound.
I grabbed my glass off the table, took a deep taste and let the wine coat my mouth.
There's other ways I think about your mouth and about holding your face and hair, too. I think you can guess what I mean.
"Oh mercy."
I'd be real gentle, though. Tender. I promise. It's just that I've felt nothing but my own hand for so long. I'd kill to know how your mouth felt. Warm and wet.
5. He gives her instructions on what to wear depending upon if she wants to continue receiving dirty letters from him or not. He really is a gentleman.
"I've got stuff to say. To you." He tapped the paper, his voice barely a whisper. "If you want to hear more, next week, you wear red."
"Wear red?"
"You show up next week wearing red, I'll know what I've got to say is okay by you. You wear any other color, I won't ever bother you again. Not about typing or anything else. I won't be angry or anything. But if you wanna hear, wear red."
Any guesses on what color she wears her next visit?
4. He is then released from prison. You know what this means, right? INTENSE KISSES. *ahem* intense kisses.
I rubbed our noses together, but his hands firmed, keeping me from coming any closer.
"Kiss me," I murmured, the words thins with desperation.
"I only get to do it once, for the first time."
"I'm going to die if you don't."
3. INTENSE SEX (I can't help but yell, y'all)
"I want your hand on me." He moved his own low, circling the root with his thumb and first finger, presenting himself. "Touch me."
His skin was hot. So was mine, and there was friction, even just between my fingertips and his bare shaft. I wrapped my hand around him, wanting us both to see how thick he was in my small fist, how dark and flushed against my pale fingers. How right that must look, after all those years stuck servicing himself.
Soft, searing skin glided along that rock-hard core with my strokes. He dropped his face, nuzzling my neck, kissing and nipping. "Say you like it."
I tightened my grip, made the pulls long and luxurious. "I do. Even more than I'd imagined I would." I heard him swallow. "Am I as big as you'd hoped?"
"Bigger. And harder."
2. And then there is this scene….
He stroked my hair lovingly, then the hand I'd put on his hip. "Now suck me."
I took him in my mouth once more, so much easier on my knees.
"Nice and hard. Good…Goddamn, I think you like that, sometimes."
I told him with my mouth, I fucking love it.
"Yeah. Fuck. Do it like you want, baby."
1. There is a lot more that happens in this book. Once Eric is out, the reason he went to prison the first time resurfaces and together with Annie, he has to fight through all of his issues – or he'll likely return to prison. There is a lot of grief and angst over it all. I do think this book ends quite abruptly. I would have loved to explore this couple another hundred pages. But overall, I had a great time reading this book. It's different, and sexy, and I love that Cara McKenna explores with protagonists that aren't rich and that have more real, grittier lives. I'd give this one a B+.

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Moffitt Cancer Center has initiated a phase I clinical trial for a new immunotherapy drug, ID-G305, made by Immune Design. Immunotherapy is a treatment option that uses a person's own immune system to fight cancer. It has several advantages over standard cancer therapies, including fewer side effects and an overall better tolerability. It tends to be most effective in patients who have smaller, localized tumors that have not spread to distant sites.
"This clinical trial is to assess ID-G305 and its ability to activate the immune system in patients with advanced stage melanoma, sarcoma, lung, ovarian, or breast cancer," said Amit Mahipal, M.D., M.P.H., medical director of Moffitt's Clinical Research Unit. "Our first patient in this trial is a metastatic sarcoma patient who has undergone two previous surgeries and one chemotherapy regimen."
ID-G305 is a cancer vaccine that is made up of two parts, a protein called NY-ESO-1 that is found in many different types of cancer, and an agent called GLAASTM developed by Immune Design. GLAASTM activates a type of cell called a dendritic cell that normally searches for pathogens in the body and helps the immune system fight against the infection. Following vaccination, the GLAASTM-activated dendritic cells recognize NY-ESO-1 as a foreign protein and cause the body to produce an immune response. Since NY-ESO-1 is found on tumors, the immune system begins targeting the cancer cells.
"Only 10 to 15 percent of all tumors have NY-ESO-1 protein expression. Therefore, patients for this trial need to be to be screened for NY-ESO-1. The vaccine will likely not work for patients with tumors that do not have detectable levels of the protein," said Mahipal.
Each component of ID-G305 has been used previously as a single-agent in clinical trials and was well tolerated by patients. This trial will determine the ideal concentration of each agent to use in combination. Common side effects expected include pain, redness, and inflammation at the site of injection.
This is an exciting time for the development of new immunotherapies to fight cancer. Several immunotherapy agents have recently been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, including interleukin-2 for melanoma and renal cell carcinoma, Provenge for prostate cancer and ipilimumab for melanoma.
"New immune therapies are emerging," explained Mahipal. "If we can have immune therapy actually work it would be great for the patient and reduce side effects associated with traditional chemotherapies."
Patients interested in learning more about the ID-G305 clinical trial should contact Clinical Research Coordinator Nancy Burke at
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Database applications can be made much simpler if you maintain a body of data that describes your tables. Every single programming task in a database application needs to know something about the tables it is working with, so every program in a framework and many programs in an application can benefit from a central store of information about the database.
Introducing the Data Dictionary
The term "data dictionary" is used by many, including myself, to denote a separate set of tables that describes the application tables. The Data Dictionary contains such information as column names, types, and sizes, but also descriptive information such as titles, captions, primary keys, foreign keys, and hints to the user interface about how to display the field.
A super-simple beginning Data Dictionary might look like this:
TABLE | COLUMN | TYPE | PREC* | SCALE | PK | AUTO** |DESCRIPTION ---------+---------+------+-------+-------+----+--------+------------------- students | student | int | - | - | Y | IDENT | Student ID students | firstnm | char | 20 | - | | | First Name students | lastnm | char | 20 | - | | | Last Name students | city | char | 20 | - | | | City students | gpa | num | 2 | 1 | | | Grade Point Avg * Precision: Needed for chars, varchars, and numerics ** automation: to be described more below
The First Question: Where to Put It
It might seem that the first question about a data dictionary would be "What do we put in it?" We will get to this question in a moment, but the most important question is usually, "Where do we put it?" By this I mean do you put into an XML file, or do you encode it into classes in program code? Or is it somehow directly entered into database tables? There are of course many opinions on this.
The first opinion is that you do not really need a data dictionary per se because you can get this information from the database server (if this is news to you, google "information_schema" and your favorite database). There are two major drawbacks when you depend on the server. First, you cannot build a database out of your data dictionary, because of course you don't have one until the database is built. The second drawback is much worse, which is that you cannot put any extended properties into the dictionary, and without those the dictionary is of little use.
Another method is to put the dictionary into classes, using the typical one-class-per-table approach and storing the data as properties of the class. There are multiple drawbacks to this approach:
- Data that is "trapped" in code is very difficult to deal with efficiently, so many operations with the dictionary will be much harder to code and will be slower.
- The dictionary is spread out into many files.
- Ironically, a good data dictionary allows you to generate most CRUD forms, and so you don't need those one-class-per-table files filling up your directory. It seems silly to make a class that contains data that makes the class unnecessary.
The option I prefer is a plaintext file, which can be generated by a GUI or typed in by hand. The only requirement for the file is that it be easy to type and read, and easy to parse by a program. These requirements are well met by two formats: YAML and JSON (XML is a bletcherous horror to work with manually, so it is disqualified before the race starts). Both YAML and JSON enjoy parsers and writers in nearly all popular languages, so if you create your data dictionary in one of those you have a file that is human readable and writable, machine readable and writable, useful in nearly every language on every platform, easily placed in source control, and very flexible in what it can represent.
First Basic Use: Building and Upgrading Databases
A data dictionary is a wonderful way to build and upgrade databases. It is a real thrill to write your first SQL generator that scans a table of column definitions, writes out a CREATE TABLE statement, and executes it. The next step in the evolution of this process is to have the program query the INFORMATION_SCHEMA of the database, then work out which columns have been added to your data dictionary that are not in the table, and then upgrade the table with an ALTER TABLE statement.
This basic approach can easily be extended to include indexes and keys.
Sidebar: Data Dictionary Versus Upgrade Scripts
Many programmers use upgrade scripts to alter their schemas. The idea is that programmer Sax Russell adds a feature. Along with his code he writes a script that makes the necessary alterations to the database. Then comes Ann Clayborne who does the same thing, followed by Hiroko Ai, and then Sax again. When a customer upgrades their system, they run all four scripts in order. This can lead to horrible upgrade experiences in cases where multiple scripts are upgrading a large table several times. A data dictionary is far superior because it can simply examine the tables as they are, examine the data dictionary, work out a diff, and execute the smallest set of commands to bring the database current. This approach does require of course that the data dictionary be in source control like any other application file.
Second Basic Use: HTML Code Generation
A rich data dictionary can provide you with everything you need to provide "free" CRUD screens for most of your tables. Now to be sure, there are always those tasks that require special screens for the users, but there is just no reason to sit down and code up a screen to managae a table of customer types, zip codes, or even a general ledger chart of accounts. Here is an example of an expanded data dictionary in YAML format that contains enough information to generate screens with zero application code:
table customer_types: # Use this to generate menus! module: sales # Use this for the menu and the page title description: Customer Types column customer_type: type_id: char column_precision: 10 # This is crucial for code generation description: Customer Type primary_key: "Y" column description: type_id: char column_precision: 40 description: Description
The use of most of those properties should be pretty obvious, but I would like to point out one particular clever trick you can do. The "primary_key" flag can be used to enable a column during insert mode (if it is a user-entered key), and then to gray out the column in edit mode. When you consider this basic example it starts to become clear that nearly all of the code in most CRUD screens can be reduced to a few routines that read the data dictionary and generate HTML.
I would like to repeat that I do not mean to say that every single CRUD form in an application will work this way. In my experience 9 out of 10 tables can use "free" generated forms, but about 1 in 10 are used so often by users that you end up making special forms with shortcuts and wizards to speed up their work. The dictionary can help you there if you use it to generate the inputs, but it is no use trying to expand the dictionary to cover every conceivable case, there is always one more that the next customer needs that would just plain go faster if you coded it up by hand.
Third Basic Use: Trigger Generation
Generating triggers is a very powerful thing you can do with a data dictionary. We saw last week that the most complete encapsulation of code and data occurs when a trigger is placed on a table. Imagine you had a data dictionary that looked like this:
table orderlines: column extended_price: type_id: numeric column_precision: 10 column_scale: 2 calculate: @price * @qty
That magic little "calculate" value can be used to generate a trigger and put it onto the table. The trigger code might look something like this (The SQL version is PostgreSQL):
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION example RETURNS TRIGGER AS $$ BODY -- direct assignments are an error if new.extended_price is not null then raise error 'Direct assignment forbidden: extended_price'; else new.extended_price = new.price * new.qty; end if; END $$ SECURITY DEFINER LANGUAGE PLPGSQL;
It is not my purpose here to explain how to generate that trigger, but simply to suggest that it is a very doable thing. Because I am not tracing out the steps, I do need to explain that I slipped those "@" signs into the "calculate" value so that when the trigger is built the builder program could detect column names and put the appropriate "old." and "new." prefixes in front of them.
Fourth Basic Use: SQL Access
A database application is full of code that reads and writes to tables. All frameworks and even very modest websites end up with a handful of routines that handle the mundane tasks of sending inserts and updates to the tables.
The Data Dictionary is the perfect resource for these routines. It can be used to properly format data, put quotes where they belong, clip overlong values (or throw an error), prevent the user from changing a primary key, and many other things.
Fifth Basic Use: Documentation
If you have a "rich" data dictionary, one that contains lots of extended properties that describe everything about columns and tables, and if you build your database and generate your forms out of that dictionary, then the next and final natural step is to generate technical documentation out of it as well.
In a first pass, technical documentation is limited to simply displaying the columns that go into a table, which admittedly does not mean much even to technical users. But once you get past that basic task you can begin to layer on lists of parent and child tables (as links of course), descriptions of formulas, and so on.
In a similar vein, Tooltip descriptions go well in a data dictionary.
Conclusion: True Synchronization
The holy grail of database programming is synchronization of code and data. Sychronization means a lot more than simply making sure you delivered the right code and upgraded the tables. Complete synchronization means that the framework is intrinsically incapable of mistakenly accessing missing columns or failing to consider important columns. At the framework level, if you make use of a data dictionary as described above then your framework will be organically synchronized, which is to say that the synchronization is built into the code itself.


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Loophole Allows Deutsche Telekom To Sell T-Mobile USA Shares Before Lock-In Period Ends
Deutsche Telekom Chief Financial Officer Timotheus Hoettges spoke early this morning and said that the majority shareholder of T-Mobile USA can sell the company to a buyer before the 18-month share lock-up period is over. Hoettges spoke to shareholders at the annual Deutsche Telekom meeting in Cologne, Germany earlier this morning. His comment was in response to a question from an … [read full article]


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Resource pools enable you to separate workloads so that workload consumption of certain resources does not overlap. This resource reservation helps to achieve predictable performance on systems with mixed workloads.
Resource pools provide a persistent configuration mechanism for processor set (pset) configuration and, optionally, scheduling class assignment.
A pool can be thought of as a specific binding of the various resource sets that are available on your system. You can create pools that represent different kinds of possible resource combinations:
pool1: pset_default
pool2: pset1
pool3: pset1, pool.scheduler="FSS"
By grouping multiple partitions, pools provide a handle to associate with labeled workloads. Each project entry in the /etc/project file can have a single pool associated with that entry, which is specified using the project.pool attribute.
When pools are enabled, a default pool and a default processor set form the base configuration. Additional user-defined pools and processor sets can be created and added to the configuration. A CPU can only belong to one processor set. User-defined pools and processor sets can be destroyed. The default pool and the default processor set cannot be destroyed.
The default pool has the pool.default property set to true. The default processor set has the pset.default property set to true. Thus, both the default pool and the default processor set can be identified even if their names have been changed.
The user-defined pools mechanism is primarily for use on large machines of more than four CPUs. However, small machines can still benefit from this functionality. On small machines, you can create pools that share noncritical resource partitions. The pools are separated only on the basis of critical resources.


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February 16, 2009 The recently-launched luxury Atlantis hotel rises towards the sky from the man-made island of Palm Jumeirah, but unlike it's mysterious namesake, this Atlantis is unlikely to get 'lost'. The ocean-and-aquatic themed resort is impressive, and not surprisingly everything about it is big - from the development price of US$1.5 billion to its size (it's spread over 46 hectares of reclaimed land) and its 1, 539 rooms. It also features a massive 17 hectares of water park activities and an 11 million liter marine habitat that is home to more than 65,000 marine animals.
Marine life and aquatic fun
Atlantis boasts its own bottlenose dolphin population at the tropical Dolphin Bay. Set in over four and a half hectares Dolphin Bay is the first marine mammal rescue and rehabilitation center in Dubai. Guests and visitors can take part in a 90-minute interaction program that includes an education session from a resident marine mammal specialist and then 30 minutes in one of the shallow water lagoons petting, playing with and feeding the dolphins.
A full time team of over 165 marine specialists manage the resort's eco-system including vets, biologists, divers, laboratory managers, food technicians, mechanics and curators.
There is also a huge waterpark, the centerpiece of which is the Ziggurat. Its summit is the launching point for a selection of jaw-dropping, heart-stopping (and body drenching) slides and rides including "The Leap of Faith", where riders experience a 27.5 meter near-vertical drop down the face of the Ziggurat before being propelled along a clear acrylic tunnel through a shark-filled lagoon.
There's more opportunity to view the marine life in "The Lost Chambers", a maze of underwater halls and tunnels under one of the lagoons. More than two hundred and fifty species can be seen in the open-air marine habitat including sharks, eels, rays, piranhas and numerous species of exotic fish. Suites feature bedrooms and bathrooms with floor-to-ceiling views of the underwater world.
Eat, relax and party!
When you've had enough of watching the aquatic life you can indulge yourself in one of 27 treatment rooms at the spa. There's an array of treatments and rituals including body wraps, facials, exfoliation and massage using precious essences and oils.
Dining highlights include a selection of regional or international dishes, served inside or al fresco and prepared by world-class chefs including Nobu, Giorgio Locatelli, Santi Santamaria and Michel Rostang.
An Arabian coffee house, in-house nightclub (complete with suspended catwalk surrounding the dance floor) and facilities to amuse (and separate you from) the kids are also part of the package.
If you can tear yourself away from the opulence of the resort Dubai offers plenty of adventure activities from desert dining to sand-boarding, deep sea fishing and moonlight dhow cruises.
There's also some out of the ordinary activities on the guest program that will add to the uniqueness of your holiday splurge - you can take a mixology class to improve your bartending skills, a drum session with professional percussionists, or learn meditation or self hypnosis (perhaps to quell the rising anxiety brought on by the thought of your next credit card bill).
On that point, no visit to a resort such as this is complete without a spot of retail therapy and Atlantis won't disappoint. There is a range of luxury boutiques offering everything from designer brands to exclusive local products.
On the horizon
Other 'big things' planned for Palm Jumeirah include plans for the US$790 million, 62 storey Trump International Hotel and Tower.
However, Palm Jameirah isn't the biggest man-made island; that honor will go to Palm Deira, which at 46.35 million square meters will be bigger than Paris.
Now, in case you've just been awarded a particularly large pay rise – or want one of those 'once in a lifetime' experiences – you'll find prices and other information on the Atlantis, The Palm website. Prices begin at around the USD$500 mark per night, but if you want to go all-out, a top of the line room in the Regal Suite will set you back in the order of USD$1700.
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How can the BBC be saved from itself without destroying it?
A decade of daftness leaves unique feature of British life on the brink
Scientists are clever, they should tell us what to do - right?
A thought exercise. Imagine, if you will, that an astronomer discovered a large space rock hurtling to Earth. The precise time and date of impact were then calculated. This would leave us with a wide range of moral and economic choices. It would be very strange, in fact inconceivable, if someone handed all these decisions to the astronomer to make.
"Here you go, Man with the Telescope - tell us what to do!"
Yet this is what happened throughout the media and political class in response to the dramatic and simplified tale of climate change. Now we have it from the highest authority, Mark Thompson: he gave three lectures at Oxford University recently, which reveal him to be an intelligent and witty man. But in one lecture he makes a quite extraordinary argument [PDF].
Thompson picks apart a statement made by social scientist Dr Benny Peiser, who stated that the scientific fact of climate change invites a range of policies, economic choices, and moral decisions. Peiser doesn't quibble with the "science", but merely points out the obvious, that we have to decide what to do. Thompson doesn't like this because only "scientists" are qualified to make ethical and economic decisions. Others may get involved, but only if they delegate their authority to the "scientists". This is the course we're told to follow on climate change.
There are enormous problems with this. The mitigation policies being advanced (and they came in a bundle - buy the science, get the policy for free) fall largely on the developing countries most in need of an advanced industrial society. These policies, if implemented, will perpetuate poverty, increase unwanted human misery and cause avoidable deaths.
There is a clear moral choice here, one the public is entitled to debate. It also raises intergenerational issues of fairness. Climate campaigners place huge costs on the current generation to "fix" the problem, when future generations would be better able to fix it. The older generation is effectively telling its youth:
"Awfully sorry, but we've caused an almighty mess. But we're not going to allow you the tools you need to fix it, like nuclear power, or cheap energy, because we don't think you should have them."
This too raised economic questions and moral choices to which we should have a say.
Thompson concluded his Oxford lecture by telling scientists that without the broadcasters they "have no voice" - he is literally saying: "Make us your mouthpiece." Given that Thompson has completely conceded moral authority on the matter, he really has no other conclusion to make. It's a return of Comte's Positivism, in which scientists are the ultimate authority in society on all decisions. Why? Because… well, they do science and stuff.
In the end, air time was given to people not making the most sense but making the most noise. By the end of the Noughties the airwaves were entirely free of policy debate, as Peter Sissons lamented: "It's the lack of simple curiosity about one of the great issues of our time that I find so puzzling about the BBC."
Conclusion: the BBC jumped the tracks, but it's not too late to save it
Climate change has receded from prominence as an issue since the UN Copenhagen summit of 2009, which failed to produce a global treaty to limit CO2 emissions. The world's developing countries are evidently not going to give up on lifting their populations out of poverty in the name of climate change.
Since 2006, China has added an entire "USA's worth" of CO2 to the atmosphere, so any cuts made by small countries, such as the UK, are meaningless gestures. Technology and adaptation are now clearly the rational policy responses. These entail the long-term development of new energy sources that don't require a restructuring of modern society, don't raise costs, and don't inhibit growth. CO2 emissions continue to increase, but the climate hasn't played along, giving rise to suspicion that the simplified picture, with its "months left to save the world", was not the complete picture.
Yet the debate remains as strange as before, largely as a result of the straitjacket into which the climate ultras (figures such as Thompson, Unsworth and Harrabin) strapped themselves. There has been no awakening of popular consciousness to save the planet - and people realised they were being manipulated, as people always do.
The detritus left behind after the tide has gone is now what haunts the BBC now - it's been uncovered by a blogger using the freedom of information law. Let's bring the story up to the present day.
Two weeks ago, I listened to the BBC's Helen Boaden testify in a court room that one of the most persuasive speakers she had heard on that day, at that fateful seminar, in January 2006 was an insurance man. It had helped convinced her that climate change was having real world impacts. As we noted:
The BBC's director of news said she was particularly impressed by the testimony of a representative of the insurance industry at the 2006 seminar. For Boaden, this attendee's belief that cost of climate change will increase carried enormous weight. This is an odd statement: since profit-seeking insurance companies pocket revenue from premiums, they materially benefit from the higher premiums that accompany predictions of catastrophic climate change. Without the warnings of catastrophe, there is no need for higher premiums, so it's not an impartial observation.
It was an extraordinary thing to say. An accomplished and experienced factual editor, Boaden has first-hand experience of large corporate lobbying, and works for an organisation suspicious of big business. Yet for that moment, she suspended her judgement. It was the climate virus attacking, once again. Insurance company Munich Re set up a climate division and published some wildly alarming material before being disbanded this year.
And now we know who the "insurance man" was. He was actually a former insurance man called Andrew Dlugolecki, who was attached to the Climatic Research Unit at the Univesity of East Anglia. Tyndall director Mike Hulme described him as a lone gun: "An independent consultant close to the insurance and investment communities." In 2002 he was promoting climate work sponsored by the UN Environment Program (UNEP), the IPCC's parent, at the BBC.
There's much discussion about "impartiality" this week, and how it can be measured. The discussion raises good questions that don't have simple answers. There's also discussion about what a "consensus" is and whether it should be slavishly obeyed. But both debates are really beside the point here - they're symptoms of what went wrong. The BBC's tragedy is that it presented a simplified childlike picture of the world.
In a speech last December one of the BBC's most experienced journalists Michael Buerk, complained:
"What gets up my nose is being infantilized by governments, by the BBC, by the Guardian that there is no argument, that all scientists who aren't cranks and charlatans are agreed on all this, that the consequences are uniformly negative, the issues beyond doubt and the steps to be taken beyond dispute. I don't need to be told things by officialdom in all its forms, that are not true, or not the whole truth, for my own good."
Climate change, said Buerk, had become a "post-God religion".
Once the media had presented this simplified and dramatic version of climate science to the world, it didn't have the language or intellectual tools with which to reach higher ground. And the BBC couldn't resist jumping into the fray, with its fists pummelling, once again last year.
In a report published by the BBC Trust, the ultimate arbiter of fairness, unfairly criticised two climate critics including former Chancellor Lord Lawson. The report, by snail biologist Dr Steven Jones, attributed to Lawson appearances he didn't make, and quotes he didn't say, and compared climate critics to 9/11 conspiracy theorists and Holocaust deniers. A defamation lawsuit was eventually avoided. Handing the report to Jones was an error of judgement, but publishing his ravings was a catastrophe: it indicated the BBC would cleave to the simplified picture of the world it had settled upon. It wouldn't be budged.
This suggests it's an institutional blindness, and that scapegoating ultras such as Harrabin is unfair. Activists were in any case pushing at an open door.
Why do we care - or should we care? Partly because it's because we hold the BBC to much higher standards. Following the presidential election, there is much debate in media circles about the fate of US cable channel Fox News. It now appears to cater for a rabid minority of ideologues; the channel's vicious partisanship has permanently tainted its brand - and its own raison d'etre. The parallels with the BBC, with its decade-long climate-change coverage, are fascinating. But the market is already pronouncing its verdict on Fox News.
The BBC is rather different. But now the loss of a powerful independent voice in public life is very real. The prospect of a regulator keeping the corporation on a tight leash is very real too - even before the trust's conduct on climate change is examined. The question is: does the BBC even realise what has happened?
The broadcaster has a long history of courageous reporting. It know hows to tell a rich and complex story without interference. By doing that again and again it can build the public's trust brick by brick. But can the BBC realise the gravity of the situation, and take steps to amend it, before its critics begin dismantle it - throwing it into the arms of a grateful Ed Richards at Ofcom? ®


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Always on time when we met.
Quick response on clarifying any point.
Attentive to my needs, and a great advisor on the negotiation.
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Forgotten Art of Love: What Love Means and Why It Matters
Explore the many facets of our most valued emotion
Cardiologist and professor Armin Zadeh revisits psychologist Erich Fromm's The Art of Loving, a book that has fascinated him for decades. The Forgotten Art of Love examines love in its complex entirety — through the lenses of biology, philosophy, history, religion, sociology, and economics — to fill in critical voids in Fromm's classic work and to provide a contemporary understanding of love. This unique and wide-ranging book looks at love's crucial role in every aspect of human existence, exploring what love has to do with sex, spirituality, society, and the meaning of life; different kinds of love (for our children, for our neighbors); and whether love is a matter of luck or an art that can be mastered. Dr. Zadeh provides a fascinating, empowering guide to enhancing relationships and happiness — concluding with a provocative vision for firmly anchoring love in our society.
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Marquis de Lafayette
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Spouse(s) | Marie Adrienne Françoise de Noailles | ||
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Service/branch | French Army Continental Army | ||
Rank | Major General (US) Maréchal de camp (France) | ||
Battles/wars | American Revolutionary War
The Marquis de Lafayette (Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier) (1757 - 1834) was a French nobleman and General. He emerged during the American Revolutionary War and later during the French Revolution, initially as a revolutionary and later as a more conservative force.
Lafayette was orphaned at a young age on the death of his wealthy land owner parents. In 1768, he entered the College of Louis-le-Grand. He married at sixteen to Anastasie Adrienne de Noailles, a fourteen-year-old girl, before traveling at the age of 19 and arrived in North America to assist the colonists in the War of Independence. He gained such influence that he helped write the American Constitution, which was later to be of use in assisting to write the French version after the French Revolution overthrew the monarchy.
In the American Revolution
Lafayette learned of the then British colonies' cause through the Duke of Gloucester; finding himself sympathetic to this cause, he sailed to Charleston, North Carolina, arriving with twelve other French officers, and landed, 14 June 1777, at Georgetown, S. C.[1] and enlisted as a volunteer at his own expense.[2] Congress subsequently appointed him a major-general.[2]
Lafayette met George Washington - and a relationship that would last till Washington's death accrued. Lafayette became a member of Washington's staff. After defeating a numerically superior Hessian force on November 25, 1777, Lafayette was appointed a command position of one of Washington's divisions.[2]
Soon after, Lafayette was ordered to command an invasion of Canada - a move which Washington was against (yet despite protest from Lafayette, it was Washington who told him he should accept the role). Lafayette arrived in Albany, New York. The fact that the plan was poorly contrived in addition to a lack of support from New Englanders resulted in the invasion being called off.[1] Lafayette returned to Washington's camp in April 1778.[2]
Seeing the desire of cooperation between both the Americans and French, Lafayette felt he could best serve the revolutionary cause in France. After a fever delayed him, on February 12, 1779, Lafayette arrived in Paris. Lafayette convinced France to send their first naval and land forces to the Americas. To avoid tensions between American and French officers, Lafayette recommended that the French generals be seen as junior to the American generals of equivalent rank.[2]
After returning to war zone, Lafayette was immediately faced with defending Richmond, Virginia from Benedict Arnold. During this time, General Lafayette worked closely with a slave-turned double-agent spy, James Armistead Lafayette(who was still James Armistead at the time). Armistead would bring back valuable information to the Americans to help gain the edge in battle. After days of skirmishing, Arnold and Charles Cornwallis crossed paths and effected a juncture of their units. Now outnumbered, Lafayette was forced to retreat - relying on General Anthony Wayne to catch up with him and the pursuing Cornwallis. On June 4, 1781 the juncture between Lafayette's and Wayne's army was made, and the now outnumbered Cornwallis was forced to retreat, only to be cut off by Lafayette on September 7, 1781. In the Battle of Yorktown, the combined forces of what was now Washington's, Lafayette's, Wayne's and Friedrich von Steuben's armies forced Cornwallis to surrender.[2]
Return to France and French Revolution
In December 1781, Lafayette returned to France and was welcomed as a hero. There he worked with Thomas Jefferson to establish trade agreements between the United States and France.
In 1784, after the peace, at Washington's invitation, he returned to the United States, and after a visit to Mount Vernon made a journey through the country from Virginia to Massachusetts. On 25 Dec., 1784, he sailed from New York in the French frigate "Nymphe." In 1785 he traveled in Germany. About this time he was deeply interested in the abolition of slavery, and purchased a large plantation in Cayenne, where great numbers of slaves might be educated with a view to gradual emancipation. Washington, Jefferson, and others were interested in this experiment, which it was hoped might furnish an example for imitation in the United States. [3]
After 1782, Lafayette was absorbed with questions of reform in France. He was one of the first to advocate a National Assembly, and worked toward the establishment of a constitutional monarchy during the years leading up to the French Revolution.[4]
In the years leading up to 1789, Lafayette became a leader in the campaign against the monarch. But here is what I think went wrong. First, the French had been too horribly oppressed for too long. The revolutionary movement became extremely radical and vengeful, and Lafayette didn't know how to turn this raw, bitter force into something controllable and beneficial. He went for a more moderate course, and this ended up killing his popularity and driving him into exile. [1]
In 1791, La Fayette was placed in command of one of the armies formed to attack Austria, but for political insubordination the French Assembly declared him a traitor. He was compelled to take refuge in Belgium where he was taken prisoner by the Austrians for five years, first in Prussian and afterwards in Austrian prisons. He returned to France in 1799.
In 1815, Lafayette was elected to the Chamber of Deputies. He demanded Napoleon I's abdication.
Last years
He died in Paris on May 20, 1834; his remains were interred beside those of his wife in the cemetery of Picpus in the faubourg Saint-Antoine. He left one son, George Washington Lafayette (1779 - 1849), and two daughters, Anastasie and Virginie; the elder married Charles de Latour Maubourg, and the younger the Count de Lasteyrie. Ibidem
In 2002, in honor for his services, Lafayette was made an honorary citizen of Virginia.[5][6]
See also
External links
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Marquis de Lafayette (English). The Historic Valley Forge. Retrieved on 2007-10-10.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Marquis de Lafayette (English). Virtualology.com. Retrieved on 2007-10-10.
- ↑ Marquis De Lafayette.
- ↑ Marquis de Lafayette, Soldier & Statesman.
- ↑ CONFERRING HONORARY CITIZENSHIP OF THE UNITED STATES POSTHUMOUSLY ON MARIE JOSEPH PAUL YVES ROCHE GILBERT DU MOTIER, THE MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE (English). Library of Congress (2002-07-19). Retrieved on 2007-10-10.
- ↑ Lafayette (English). Lucidcafe.


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New Preschool Series "Paw Patrol" Premieres August 12 After New "Bubble Guppies" Episode
via Nickelodeon press release:
New School-Themed Episode of Top-Rated Bubble Guppies to Premiere at 8 P.M. (ET/PT)
NEW YORK, July 24, 2013 – Nickelodeon celebrates the dog days of summer with the launch of the new CG-animated preschool series, Paw Patrol, on Monday, Aug. 12, at 8:30 p.m. (ET/PT). Paw Patrol stars a pack of six heroic rescue pups – Chase, Marshall, Rocky, Rubble, Zuma and Skye – who are led by a tech-savvy boy named Ryder. Together they work hard to protect the Adventure Bay community believing, "no job is too big, no pup is too small!" The series features a curriculum that focuses on citizenship, social skills and problem-solving. Paw Patrol, a co-production with Spin Master Entertainment, will regularly air weekdays at 12 p.m. (ET/PT) on Nickelodeon. The series will begin airing on Nickelodeon's international channels in the fall.
The Paw Patrol launch follows a brand-new episode of the hit preschool series, Bubble Guppies, at 8:00 p.m. (ET/PT). In "Get Ready For School!" the Guppies show viewers that school is a great place to learn, play, and meet new friends. Bubble Guppies is the number-one preschool series across all TV in its 11 a.m. (ET/PT) timeslot.
In conjunction with the Paw Patrol launch, Nickelodeon has partnered with the ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) to help deliver the organization's message promoting the humane treatment of animals. Preschoolers will learn about pet care and how to be an animal advocate through events, online activities and printables featuring Paw Patrol characters and themes.
In the Paw Patrol series premiere, "Pups and the Kitty-tastrophe/Pups Save a Train," Ryder and the Paw Patrol rescue a lost kitty from the bay, but who will save them from all the mayhem she causes? Then, Ryder, Rubble, Rocky and Chase must help free Katie and Cali's train from a rockslide.
At NickJr.com, Nickelodeon's award-winning website, viewers can watch the Paw Patrol trailer, print activity packs, and will be able to submit photos of their preschoolers with their pets for a chance to be on TV. On Tuesday, Aug. 13, the series premiere will be available on the site. The excitement for Paw Patrol will continue as printable party supplies and a new game are scheduled to launch this October. Also at nickjr.com, parents can help their kids prep for preschool on the Bubble Guppies "Get Ready For School" page featuring activities and printables.
About Spin Master Ltd.
A multi-category children's entertainment company since 1994, Spin Master has been designing, developing, manufacturing and marketing consumer products for children around the world and is recognized as a global growth leader within the toy industry. Spin Master is best known for such popular brands as boy's action phenomena and 2009-2010 Boys Toy of the Year winner Bakugan Battle Brawlers™, and award-winning brands Air Hogs®, Appfinity™, Aquadoodle™, La Dee Da™, Nano Speed™, Spin Master Games™, Tech Deck™, and Zoobles™. The company has also marked an entry into children's media with the launch of Spin Master Entertainment, a subsidiary focusing on the design, development and production of television and other media properties. Spin Master employs over 900 people with offices in Toronto, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Hong Kong, Mexico, Munich, Italy, Spain and central Europe. For additional information please visit: www.spinmaster.com
About Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon, now in its 34th year, is the number-one entertainment brand for kids. It has built a diverse, global business by putting kids first in everything it does. The company includes television programming and production in the United States and around the world, plus consumer products, online, recreation, books and feature films. Nickelodeon's U.S. television network is seen in more than 100 million households and has been the number-one-rated basic cable network for 18 consecutive years. For more information or artwork, visit http://www.nickpress.com. Nickelodeon and all related titles, characters and logos are trademarks of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAB, VIA).


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Source: Date Stamp: 1984 Release Date: 1984 Carded Availability: Return of the Jedi Tri-Logo Assortment No. : 71350 Retail: $2.99 Weapons and Accessories: Point of Interest: This figure first appeared on the Return Of The Jedi 77 back card. |
Comments: OK, really, what was Kenner thinking when they decided to make the Rancor Keeper. Lets see, a fat, bald, shirtless old white human with a stick; yup, sounds like a big draw for boys ages four and up, dont it? Needless to say, this is likely the most notable blemish on the toymakers near flawless track record. Nonetheless, this figure became the worlds quickest and longest lasting peg warmer. For that matter, its likely the toy responsible for the phrase. Major Variations: Though all vintage figures have minor variations, the Rancor Keeper action figure itself has no documented major variations. Its accessories on the other hand did have a couple of interesting variations. Rancor Keeper HoodThis hood was produced in both soft and semi-hard plastic. The softer of the two is moulded in a brown/ gray plastic similar in tone to the plastic used on the legs of the Han Solo (In Trench coat) action figure. The semi-hard version was moulded in a gray plastic similar in tone to the plastic used for the AT AT Commander action figure. Of the two, the semi-hard version seems to be more scarce, but it may be more available in some regions. Vibroblade This accessory was produced in using two sculpts, both of which are different at the bottom (blade) end. One version, shown here moulded in glossy plastic, has a thin border attaching the blade to the staff, while the other, moulded in matte plastic, has a thick border separating the blade from the staff. There is no indication that either staff was moulded exclusively in glossy or matte plastic. Text & Photography by D. Martin Myatt. |
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Source: http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2012/02/cinnamon-roll-waffles-bacon-apple-frosting-waffled-recipe.html
Special equipment: waffle iron, pastry brush, cooling rack, large skillet, spatula, large plate, paper towels, electric mixer
yield: Makes 8 small sandwiches, active time 30 minutes, total time 45 minutes- For the Cinnamon Roll Waffles
- 1 (8-roll) package Pillsbury cinnamon rolls
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- For the Bacon-Apple Frosting
- 6 slices bacon, thinly sliced cross-wise
- 1 Granny Smith apple, peeled, cored, and cut into 1/8-inch dice
- 2 tablespoons packed dark brown sugar
- 2 tablespoon bourbon
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 8 ounces confectioners' sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- For the Cinnamon Roll Waffles: Open package and separate cinnamon rolls. Flatten each dough round with fingers to 1/2-inch thickness.
- Preheat waffle iron according to manufacturer's instructions. Brush with melted butter. Place one dough round on each waffle grid. Cook on medium-high heat setting until waffle iron beeps and cinnamon roll waffle is cooked through, 2 to 3 minutes. Transfer to cooling rack and repeat with remaining butter and dough.
- For the Bacon-Apple Frosting: Line large plate with 2 layers paper towels. Cook bacon in large skillet over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally, until crisp, 6 to 8 minutes. With slotted spoon, transfer to prepared plate.
- Transfer all but 2 teaspoons rendered bacon fat to bowl. Add apples, brown sugar, bourbon, and cinnamon to skillet and cook until golden but still crisp, 2 to 3 minutes. Transfer to plate and cool to room temperature, 10 to 15 minutes.
- Beat cream cheese, confectioners' sugar, and salt on low speed until incorporated. Increase speed to medium-high and beat until light, about 2 minutes. Add bacon and apples and beat just to combine, about 30 seconds.
- To Assemble: Slice waffles in half. Brush cut sides with remaining bacon fat. Cook 8 waffle halves, cut sides down, in now-empty skillet until toasted, 1 to 2 minutes. Repeat with remaining waffle halves.
- Spread 8 waffle halves with icing and top with remaining 8 waffle halves. Serve.


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Thursday, August 12, 2010
APHA Weekly Report, August 11, 2010
We have a new researcher working on the project! Christine H. is a volunteer at the Camillus Historical Society and a Find-A-Grave volunteer. She is currently helping us with our backload of filing and file organizing, but she will soon be taking over the data-entry of the George Pomeroy book and will be entering research done on that family to that database. George came from Ireland and settled in Pennsylvania about 1730.
Nancy has been working with a Benjamin L, who is descended from Bettie Lou Pomeroy, born 4 Jul 1880 in TN, who died 1 Jul 1910 and is buried in the Gambill Cemetery in Nashville. Bettie married Robert Lee Gambill on 18 Dec 1896 in Davidson Co., TN. We are currently following a hunch that Bettie is an undocumented daughter of John and Sallie C. (Little) Pomeroy. John was born about 1820 in Williamson Co., TN to William and Sarah Pomeroy. William was born about 1785 in NC and died after 9 Oct 1850 in Williamson Co., TN. Sarah (last name unknown) was born about 1785 in NC. William and Sarah had the following children that we know of: Nancy, born about 1800 in Macon, Bibb Co, GA; Abraham, born about 1802 in TN; Willis, born about 1804 in Williamson Co., TN; Thomas, born about 1806 in Macon, Bibb Co., GA; Millie, born about 1809 in Macon; Elizabeth, born about 1810 in Macon; James, born about 1813 in Macon; Mary, born about 1816 in Williamson Co., TN; William Henry born about 1816 in Williamson Co.; John, born about 1820 in Williamson Co.; Temperance C., born about 1821 in Williamson Co.; and Catharine, born about 1830 in Williamson Co. If anyone is researching this family, please contact us!
Betty has been working on the Grove Pomeroy family and his son Timothy R. Pomeroy. Timothy was born Dec 1849 in Steuben Co., NY and is found in Woodhull, Steuben Co., when the 1865 New York State Census was enumerated. Grove, born abt 1821 in New York descends from Phineas, Phineas, Phinehas, Medad, Joseph, Medad, Eltweed. This information has enabled Betty to further fill in this line, and she has added 6 children born of Timothy and his wife Arvilla B. Sherwood. These children include: Harry T., born Jun 1875 in NY; Grace M., born Jun 1877 in NY; Lee, born Aug 1881 in NY; Fred Wallace, born 16 Dec 1888 in Hornell, Steuben Co.; George G., born 15 Dec 1890 in Hornell; and Iva M, born Feb 1897 in NY.
Lee coordinated and led a field trip to the Onondaga County Public Library where she and our researchers reviewed the 1855 NY State Census records on microfilm and (where available) indexed in books. She also examined Maine collateral line family histories and various files and obituaries for Ashley, Pixley and Benedict family names. Lee also used www.fultonhistory.com to identify further information on the Theodore Ashley family.
Barb continues to add to her growing database of Northampton, MA church records, including births, baptisms, marriages, membership, death and removals. She has entered over 2,000 records to date. Barb also continues her review of Pomeroys in the America's Historic Newspaper database.
Ed has been gathering and entering Pomeroy records in the Pomeroy Ridge, New Brunswick vicinity. He entered additional data on Martin Pomeroy and Lydia Rowell who were married in 1840 in Old Town, Maine, and had a son Luther S. Pomeroy, born 1846. Ed also added matched 1881 Canadian Census records that Lee had transcribed and organized. Ed also researched John Henry Calvin Pomeroy who was born in Linneus, Aroostook Co., ME in 1886 and married Berta Louise Wilson on 28 Aug 1915 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Judy has been helping us with miscellaneous data-entry including Arizona Marriages; Mobile County, AL Marriages, KY Marriages and Rochester, NY directories. She has also been working on TN vital records.
The Pomeroy Collection
Exciting news about the Pomeroy Collection: Tammy C. has returned and has taken on a huge project to digitally photograph and scan every item in the collection. Tammy will be adding metadata to the digital images so that we will be able to easily locate the objects using the Copernic search engine. If you're not familiar with Copernic, it is software that is able to "read" files, documents and spreadsheets, e-mail, pdfs, internet history and metadata. We are using the corporate edition, which we purchased from Copernic, but they also have a home version which is free. Once your files are indexed, you can quickly search your hard-drive, and networked drives for names, places, any word you can think of. Because of our vast collection of digital records it's imperative that we have a fast, user-friendly search engine.
Nancy is looking into solutions to cataloging our library using a web-based database. As an affiliate member of the Central (NY) Library Resource Council we need to upload our library onto WorldCat, using the MARC code format. Nancy is currently looking at http://biblios.net/ as a possible solution, (and learning more about MARC code than she ever really wanted to!)
The Pomeroy Anvil Trail
Nancy just purchased a 4 pin to 4 pin firewire cable from her favorite cable supplier, CXtec, so she will now be able to download the video her husband Jerry shot at the Pembroke, ME Pomeroy Anvil Dedication. My, those folks at CXtec are friendly, and helpful!
The Mary Ann Coe Project
Judy visited the Winterthur Museum research center in her new home state of Delaware, to look at an early Pompey account book. The book belonged to Stuttson Benson and is housed in the Joseph Downs Collection. The book covers the years 1807 through 1848. From what has been learned about Stuttson, he was apparently a farmer and weaver. The book contains 90 pages and includes an index page (probably done at some later date). Names include Benedict Amos, Richard Gage, Seth T. Benson, Robert Nagus, Daniel Lewis, Lewis R. [H]ood, Joseph Row, William Donaghey, Job Debenport, Levi Barber, Anson Wood, Peter Benson, John Upford, Andros, Nathan Rose, Bently Gideon, Stuart Mathew, Stimpson Morg, Benson Benjamin (Benjamin Benson?), Unver [sp?] Wood, Goodel Isoner, William Donegy, Stephen Benedict, Robert Negus (probably the same man as Robert Nagus), Samuel Preston, Nathaniel Green, Seth P. Benson (probably the same man as Seth T. Benson), Sheleman, James Pettit, Alexander Hall, John Ely or Sly, Richard Taylor, Moses Stimson, Henry Hall, Antony Snyder, John Watonburgh, Elisha Ely or Sly.
Of particular interest in these account books are the names James Pettit and Samuel Preston. Men with these names were living in Norwalk, OH when Mary Ann moved there, and she had business ties with both. Are the James Pettit and Samuel Preston who are listed in Stuttson Benson's account book the same men who were living in Norwalk, Ohio? Nancy is going to review the other names against the 1801-1802 Pompey account book at the Pompey Historical Society to see if any of the names in the Stuttson Benson book are listed in the earlier Pompey account book.
Judy has also identified several other account books held at the Winterthur Museum which may be of interest to us, including two Northampton, MA account books and a mechanic's ledger from 1832-1860 that belonged to Lebbeus B. Guile from Dryden NY. Lebbeus Ball Guile was the son of Andrew and Charlotte (Curtis) Guile and was baptized in Pompey 1 Sep 1816. His mother, Charlotte Curtis, was the widow of Lebbeus Ball, Jr. Lebbeus Ball, Jr. was the brother of Sarah Ball who married Ithamar Coe. Ithamar and Sarah (Ball) Coe were the parents of Mary Ann Coe. An interesting account book from Ohio is also in the collection. This book, dating between 1847 and 1848, apparently belonged to Smith Peck, who lived in Sandgate, VT, but the daybook contains records on account of a Sandusky, OH hatter. Could Mary Ann, her son Francis or her husband David Powers have bought a hat from this person?
Nancy has been researching and entering information about Theodore Ashley, born about 1800 in Westfield, MA to parents Stephen and Sarah (Pomeroy) Ashley. Theodore was the grandson of Pliny and Sarah (Allen) Pomeroy, and nephew of Spencer Pomeroy. Theodore's mother died when Theodore was only two years old, leaving 6 small children, including one infant who died a month later. We speculate that Sarah's death precipitated Pliny and Sarah (Allen) Pomeroy's removal from Westhampton, MA to Westfield, MA. Theodore Ashley settled in Syracuse, NY by 1825. Although his grandmother, Sarah (Allen) Pomeroy, died in March of 1823, his Uncle Spencer Pomeroy and Aunt Clarissa (Pomeroy) Wood were living in Manlius at that time. Was Theodore in contact with Spencer and Clarissa? Can we find any correspondence between them?
Judy has also been adding the TrueWorthy and Selah Cook families into our database. TrueWorthy and Selah were brothers and early Pompey residents. TrueWorthy was one of the original members of the Pompey Congregational (later Presbyterian) Church and attended when Reverend Hugh Wallis was pastor. To complicate matters, Homer Cook, born 14 Dec 1818 in Pompey, and died Feb 1893 in Lake Mills, Jefferson Co., WI, a grand-nephew of TrueWorthy and Selah Cook, was the husband of Mary Ann Cook, born about Sept 1812 who died Dec. 1902. Mary Ann was the daughter of (believe it or not), Enos Pomeroy Cook and his wife Mary "Polly" Sutton. Enos was born 18 Feb 1797 in Oneida Co., NY and died 3 Feb 1851 in Rochester, Monroe Co., NY. Enos was the son of Daniel Cook and Rebecca Pomeroy (Eliakim, Noah, Joseph, Medad, Eltweed).
Pat has been catching up on Mary Ann Coe related data entry.
We have added 450 new people, 101 new sources and 2284 new citations to our genealogy databases over this past week.
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Re Caleb Tucker and Thirza Foster:
While there are Pomeroys in my husband's "Harris" family tree (Gad Jr married Joanna Harris), until this morning I did not know about Mary Ann Pomeroy marrying Foster Tucker. His parents, Caleb and Thirza, are part of his "Moulton" family tree (their son Roswell married Ravanalina Smith). Your question sent me searching..... and led nowhere. As you surely already know, Caleb Tucker and Jeduthan Tucker were 3rd cousins; their great-great grandparents were Benjamin Tucker and Ann Payson.
I've seen it happen several times in my husband's families that a child is named for a highly-favored friend or an admired public figure. My only thought is that this may have been what let Jeduthan and Abi to name their son Pomeroy.
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Some 500 dogs and nine cats may have died after eating chicken jerky pet treats made in China, according to updated complaints logged by federal veterinary health officials.
A new tally of reports filed with the Food and Drug Administration shows the agency has received 2,674 reports of illness involving 3,243 dogs, including 501 deaths. The agency also has received reports of nine illnesses in cats, including one death, the FDA said.
That's up from an estimated 2,200 reports of illness, 360 dog deaths and one cat death reported last summer. So far, though, FDA has not been able to confirm a link between the treats and the ailments.
The new figures come less than a week after two of the largest retailers of pet chicken jerky treats issued voluntary recalls of several popular brands after New York state agriculture officials detected unapproved antibiotics in the products.
Nestle Purina PetCare Co. recalled its popular Waggin' Train and Canyon Creek Ranch brand dog treats, and Del Monte Corp. officials recalled their Milo's Kitchen Chicken Jerky and Chicken Grillers home-style dog treats from shelves nationwide.
In addition, two more firms have recalled their treats as well, including Publix stores, which recalled its private brand Chicken Tenders Dog Chew Treats and IMS Pet Industries Inc., which withdrew its Cadet Brand Chicken Jerky Treats sold in the U.S.
The voluntary recalls effectively remove the pet treats from store shelves nationwide, but FDA officials say they still haven't solved the mystery of what's been making animals sick. They say tests by the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets found trace amounts of antibiotic residue, but that the levels don't pose a threat to animals or people.
"Based on the FDA's review of the NYSDAM results, there is no evidence that raises health concerns, and these results are highly unlikely to be related to reports of illnesses FDA has received related to jerky pet treats," the agency said in a statement.
The New York agriculture agency used a common test to detect chemical contaminants in foods, said Joe Morrissey, a department spokesman. They relied on liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry, or LC-MS/MS. The tests revealed four antibiotics not approved for use in poultry in the U.S. and one antibiotic that may be used, but is limited to nearly undetectable limits in the finished product.
FDA officials will continue to investigate animal illnesses tied to jerky treats. Since 2007, the agency has warned consumers several times that jerky treats are not necessary for pet health and that eliminating them won't harm animals.
The agency last spring inspected five Chinese plants that made jerky treats. Officials weren't allowed to take samples for testing. Now, inspection reports released about the fifth site, Yantai Aska of Yantai, China, shows that plant officials falsified records regarding imports of glycerin, a key component in the jerky treats.
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A Power Line reader left me a curious telephone tip yesterday to check out a couple of obscure government reports, and indeed this looks like an interesting story, albeit one that is very complicated and hard to summarize briefly. But on to the question: who makes the most money from oil and gas leases on public land—the oil and gas companies, or the federal government? Most good Power Line readers will immediately default to the counter-intuitive position, and answer that the government makes the most. And it looks like this is right.
There's a lot of deep background to this. The Government Accountability Office roiled the waters of the oil and gas world back in 2008 with a report that concluded that the U.S. government was not collecting as much in royalties from oil and gas production on public lands and waters as it should. The implication was that the government was being a patsy to the oil industry, as several studies have found the industry to enjoy a rate of profitability higher than the average for other industries (at least in good times). When oil prices spiked to $147 a barrel in 2008, many nations rushed to grab a share of the windfall by raising royalties or nationalizing leases. The U.S. was an outlier in not joining the stampede. Hence there have been frequent calls for the U.S. to increase its royalty rates.
The GAO calculated that the U.S. government ranked 93rd lowest out of 104 fiscal systems surveyed around the world, losing between $21 and $53 billion in potential revenue, depending on oil and gas prices. In 2007, for example, oil and gas companies received $75 billion in revenue from production in the Gulf of Mexico; the U.S. government received $9 billion in royalties—about 12 percent of revenues. The nominal royalty rate for Gulf of Mexico production is 18.75 percent of revenues, but in the mid-1990s, when oil prices were low, Congress enacted a royalty relief system, as the 18.75 percent rate rendered some leases unprofitable in periods of low oil and gas prices.
The "lack of flexibility" in the U.S. royalty system results in a low "government take" (the phrase actually used) from oil and gas. The "flexibility" the GAO recommended was thought necessary because of the high volatility of oil prices over the last decade. When the price swings up, oil companies tend to enjoy surging profits, but the government's "take" from royalties don't rise commensurately. However, the government does increase its "take" from higher corporate income taxes, which are separate and on top of lease royalties. And here's where the story starts to get even more complicated: if the government raises the royalty rate, its take from corporate income taxes will go down, especially from marginally profitable leases.
The Department of the Interior vigorously disagreed with the GAO's 40-page analysis, and has just recently released a 300-page study of the subject it commissioned from IHS-CERA. It becomes quickly apparent from the IHS-CERA report that the GAO's analysis of this extremely complicated arena was superficial and inadequate, and that the government makes out quite well, no matter how you define "fair share" that is supposed to be the guide of oil royalty and tax policy. In fact, if you consider the government take as a proportion of the cash flow from oil and gas projects, the government typically nets more than the oil or gas-producing company does. The IHS-CERA study finds that on average the federal government captures 64 percent of the cash flow from Gulf of Mexico deepwater oil leases. There are large differences from field to field, both onshore and offshore, that produce a wide variance, but in no case does the government receive less than half of the cash flow. The report's Figure 2 below shows how it works with gas leases in Wyoming, with the "government take" ranging from a low of 50 percent to a high of 73 percent.
Moreover, when oil prices do spike as they did in 2008, the government typically sees a huge spike in "signature bonuses," in which companies buy the rights to a lease in advance. Figure 3 from the IHS-CERA report shows how federal government revenue soared in 2008.
IHS-CERA's conclusion is that when compared properly with the royalty and tax systems of 29 other nations, only Venezuela extracts a higher take from oil and gas production than the United States. Nice company we're in.
This study ought to be a blockbuster, but surely won't on account of its complexity, and because it runs counter to the preferred narrative of perfidious "big oil." There's been no media mention of it at all. To the contrary, about the only news story that bears on the subject at all is from Bloomberg: "Oil Royalty Raise on U.S. Lands 'Not Imminent,' Agency Says."


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The big selling Suzuki whose competitors include cars like the Fiesta has been around for some time but it has appealing styling with impressive handling that have helped it to sell so well worldwide over the last few years where sales have exceeded four million units.
Now the Japanese firm has made the Swift even more appealing because it has a cleaner and more frugal power unit that also means the owner does not have to pay any road tax which is an added bonus.
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Dualjet is available as an option on the SZ4 two wheel drive five door models for an additional £500 and in addition there are alterations to gear ratios plus engine auto stop start.
My test car the Swift 1.2 SZ4 Dualjet five door costing £12,699 had a top speed of 102mph with the zero to 62mph time taking 12.3 seconds and a very impressive array of standard equipment including satellite navigation, DAB digital radio, automatic air conditioning, very cool 16 inch alloy wheels and cruise control.
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I like the five doors because it makes access to the roomy rear seat that much easier and it has a well equipped interior with nicely designed instruments including a digital fuel consumption and range display that is extremely useful.
There is also a digital display informing the driver when to change gear but I think the unit with its large digital numbers would have been better utilised to display the digital speed of the car because most drivers know when it is time to change gear without being told when to do so and digital speedos are so easy to see in all light conditions.
Load space at the rear is about average for a car of this size but I imagine that most owners will use the front seats most of the time and the rear seats can be easily folded to free up a large amount of extra space for baggage and shopping.
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Pastor Maldonado is keen to secure a long-term deal with Williams but insists his PDVSA backing does not even guarantee his seat…
Pastor Maldonado is keen to secure a long-term deal with Williams but insists his PDVSA backing does not even guarantee his seat.
Maldonado joined Williams at the start of last season, bringing with him hefty sponsorship from Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA.
It was a dismal season for the team, prompting whispers that only his financial backing had assured him of a second year with the Grove-based team.
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"That would be good," he said of a long-term deal. "You are more calm, more focused on your work, especially if you want to develop the car for next season.
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"From my side I believe I've done quite a good job. Maybe I paid for some of the mistakes I made, and it's been a hard season.
"The gaps have been close, but I've made up the difference in some important races, and I think the team is very happy with me as well.
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I am currently in Bozeman, Montana. I did not come here to see the President. Rather, this past week I attended a conference for judges and law professors on Terrorism, Civil Liberty, and National Security, sponsored by the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment. The conference ended yesterday, so now I'm fishing. Today we had a rainy — though fairly successful — float on the Madison. My Dad had the biggest fish of the day — a portly, 18 inch Rainbow.
As for the President's visit, most of the national coverage I've seen stressed the generally favorable audience at the town hall. For what it's worth, the local coverage I've seen and heard out here has stressed that anti-ObamaCare protestors substantially outnumbered supporters outside the meeting. This should not be surprising — this is Montana.
UPDATE: Saturday started cold, but warmed up nicely in the afternoon. Floating on the Yellowstone south of Livingston we caught well over a dozen nymphing in the morning, and landed some beautiful Rainbows and Cutbows on hoppers after lunch, before the rain returned. I'm praying for sun on Sunday.
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A New York man, Walter Leon Hill, 44, appeared in Missoula Justice Court on Wednesday, September 11, to hear charges of aggravated promotion of prostitution and sexual abuse of children, both felonies.
According to court records, on March 26, 2013, Hill allegedly placed an ad in an online site called Backpage.com, in which a juvenile female appeared in lingerie posing in a sexually provocative way. Missoula Police Detective Chris Shermer answered the ad and agreed to meet the female at a local motel for a sexual encounter that was to cost $300. Upon arrival, Shermer identified himself as a police officer, and the girl admitted she was only 17 years-old.
The girl took Shermer and other officers to an apartment leased by Hill, where they seized a laptop computer and lingerie that matched what was in the Backpage.com ad. Shermer contacted Hill by phone, and he refused to come in to be interviewed, claiming that he was afraid to be sent back to prison.
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"He was arrested in the state of New York based on a warrant issued here in Missoula in March," Marks said. "They were finally able to locate him and arrested him there. He went through the extradition process and was returned to Missoula to face charges."
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"It's my understanding that Mr. Hill was actually here in Missoula when police started their investigation, but he fled the state to avoid law enforcement," Marks said. "He has no local ties to the community, and he has a prior history of felonies here, so $100,000 bail is appropriate."
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